Motivational Quotes

Life

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote